Life goes on...

So I have just spent the past couple days in the hospital with an abscess in the back of my throat. Who knew a sore throat could turn into a closed throat. Well after being sent home this morning, I realized that life does go on without you. I have come home to a million emails from work, a million assignments I have missed in school, and a house full of a mess. Now you all know that I like to make choices in life to slow down the pace and be able to enjoy the things we love, but how do I do that when I have so much to do and not enough time or energy? If anyone has the key to thins, let me know! But always remember, life will always go on with or without us!

Boys and their toys!

I have heard for the past six month, "I want a motorcycle. I want a new car. I want a segway. I want drums. I want a guitar." So finally my boyfriend decides its time for the motorcyle. In my head I'm thinking this is the best thing I have heard all week because now he will shut up about buying one. I am on a business trip in New Orleans for the past week and he decides to drive to every Harley shop from Bossier City to New Orleans on a quest to come visit me. So he stops at multiple shops and once he reaches New Orleans, I decide I will go with him to Slidell to look at that shop. So we get there and he finds a couple of bikes he likes. Again, this is one more step ahead so I am excited. Not realizing what I am getting myself into, I hear questions and debates on color, type, suspension, kits, conversions, blah, blah, blah. Not being a very savvy girl with anything like that, I am lost! I have trouble figuring out my navigation in my car so we all know motorcycle talk is at the bottom of my kowledge base! Being a supportive girlfriend, I want him to get what he wants and what he likes, not what someone else tells him to get so I try to voice my oppinion when it matters. In a shop full of boys, my mind seems to drift when they are talking about the width of a tire and what kind of rims are on the bike. I know boys like their toys but is it wrong that I am thinking about how cute my new pair of jeans would look on me on the back of the bike?!?! Or how I am going to hold my purse when I am riding with him?!?!? So push comes to shove and he picks one out. He picks out all the extra 'toys' he is going to add to this bike and after it is all said and done, three hours later, he has a bike! In the truck on the way home, I wonder to myself, what did I do for three hours while he was shopping for a bike? I was shopping in my head for accessories that will look good on his bike! Boys and their toys and women and their shoes!

Where does the time go?

You ever wake up and wonder what day of the week it is? I find myself questioning that often! What day is it? Where did my night go? Where has the week gone? What have I done productive this week? Time takes us through life so fast. Sometimes I wonder if I am moving through life or if life is moving through me. I am a strong believer in choices. We have choices about everything. So, my choice is to slow it (life) down a bit and soak it up. Forget the day-to-day routine we each have. Wake up, get ready for work, eat breakfast, work, come home to housework and cooking dinner and go to bed. Instead, lets not call it a routine. Lets call it a choice. Tomorrow I will choose to wake up and not get ready for work, but make myself beautiful for life. I will fill my belly will food I enjoy and tastes amazing. I will go to a place (we won't call it work) that allows me to make money to buy the things I want and enjoy. I will not come home to housework but come home to make my house gorgeous as it should be shown. I will then cook a delicious meal for myself and my loved one and we will enjoy it together over great conversation. We then will go lay in bed with each other and let the wonders of the world take over our minds and dream, dream away!